"We Were Those Who Walked out of Bullets and Hunger": Representation of Trauma and Healing in "Solar Storms"

Autor/in	Vernon, Irene S.
Titel	"We Were Those Who Walked out of Bullets and Hunger": Representation of Trauma and Healing in "Solar Storms"
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 36 (2012) 1, S.34-49 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Trauma; Violence; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Females; American Indians; American Indian Literature; Novels + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Weibliches Geschlecht; American Indian; Indianer; Novel; Roman
Abstract	Scholars Kali Tal and Cathy Caruth express the importance of trauma literature as "the need to tell and retell the story of the traumatic experience, to make it "real" both to the victim and to the community," and to tell "a reality or truth that is not otherwise available." In "Solar Storms" Linda Hogan vividly recounts the consequences of domination and subordination of three generations of Native women in the community known as Adam's Rib and the destruction of their land and culture. In the author's exploration of "Solar Storms," she gives voice to the traumatic wound through presenting the truth of colonial practices and their severe and tragic consequences. Through the protagonist, Angela Jensen (aka Angel), Hogan conveys a shocking individual experience while also expressing the collective trauma and suffering of Native people. In narrating Angel's traumatic past and search for wholeness, Hogan reveals an "intergenerational trauma", the idea that if trauma among a population is not addressed, the consequences can continue into subsequent generations, becoming more severe with each passing. Native children, for example, today carry the traumas of their parents and grandparents who experienced the horrors of the Indian boarding schools that forcefully removed them from their homes, beat them for speaking their languages, and raised them in a culture not their own. Hogan talks about the need to write about the land, history, old stories, violence, and lost children to help readers develop a deeper understanding of the destruction and survival of Native families. For those not familiar with violence among Natives, "Solar Storms" brings the issue to the forefront, representing its terror. (Contains 38 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10